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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Dot-To-Dot

Soooo, a quick card to share with you tonight, which is actually my Grampy's birthday card. It is his birthday on Sunday, but as I will be flying to Tunisia in the early hours of Sunday morning, I thought that I had best get his card made so I can delivery it, and his present, before I jet off on my holidays. So, I decided to make it tonight before settling down to watch Bake Off.

Anyway, here is his card:

I made this by printing off a dot-to-dot of a plane and layering this onto some green card.

My colour scheme was decided by my papers, which are actually from a Christmas set, but I think that they make good 'man' papers.

I added a bit of gauze behind the bottom right-hand corner of the image. I also added a green button to the top left-hand corner, and threaded this with some blue and white twine.

I added a happy birthday sentiment to the top right hand corner of the image. I attached this with sticky fixers for dimension.

Finally, I added a blue star to the bottom right-hand corner of the image too.

I also added red stars in each corner of the card and then spelled 'Grampy' in peel off letters to the left-hand side of the card.

I love your idea and think this is soo cool! It's a great interactive card and I hope your Gramps had a good time with it. Thank you for adding your link to our challenge at Yumi & Fumi Handmade, unfortunately your card does not qualify. We require a colored image. Sorry about that. You still have until noon to link up another card and I hope you do. TFS!

Hi Holly! I am IMPRESSED with your blog...you're so VERY creative!! Thank you for the lovely words that you posted on my blog. I noticed that you became a follower...THANK YOU!! I joined you as well... you have so many wonderful ideas to explore!!!

About Me

Hello, my name is Holly and I live in Yorkshire, UK, where it generally rains and does not much else, but that gives me plenty of time to sit indoors and craft. I have been making cards for about a year now and I soon moved onto sewing and trying other crafts too.

It started as something to keep me occupied while the hubby (or fiance as he was at the time) watched football (soccer to anyone in the US) and it became a bit of an obsession, so much so that my spare room is now my sewing studio and I no longer have to sit at the kitchen table.

My other hobbies include tap dancing, following MotoGP and reading. I am also studying with the Open University for my history degree and am in my final year.

I sometimes wonder how I find time to do all this, and see my friends, as by day I work for a solicitors' firm in Leeds.

You can contact me using the contact form below or at fairy[dash]elephants[at]